Prepare for plot!

After the disastrously overbloated Transformers 2 , it looks like director Bay might make good on his promise to get back to a decent story with this third, and possibly final, robotic smash-up.

This new trailer gifts Transformers 3 with a context and a basic plot, cleverly tying real history in with a story about, yuhuh, big, giant robots.

Check out the trailer below…

So, no sign of any of the main cast, no giant scraps, no rapturous explosions. Just slow, teasing, dread-building images that set up TF3 ’s basic premise.

Michael Bay definitely seems to be making a point with his first trailer, scrapping basically everything we know about Transformers and instead pairing slick visuals with an intriguingly nifty concept.

Transformers 3 just upped the stakes – and boy are we ready for whatever Bay’s got in store. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon opens on 1 July, 2011.